By Erik Walsh The News Staff ATHENS–After nearly 30 years in operation, the Henderson County Alcohol/Drug Abuse Education Awareness Association is no more. County Commissioners agreed to disband the once-influential community group after Coordinator Linda Battles told the court a lack of public interest and funding contributed to its shut down Jan. 3. The Association

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By Erik Walsh The News Staff ATHEN–Each Jan. 1, elected county officials across America are sworn in to begin their tenure. This year five such officials gathered at the Henderson County Courthouse Annex to make their vows of service, while simultaneously three more affirmed their oaths across the street at the County Court at Law

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By Erik Walsh The News Staff HENDERSON COUNTY–Much has transpired in Henderson County in the past year. From the courthouse’s birthday, to school bomb threats, to tragic accidents, these are the stories that mattered to us the most at The News. AMWA dispute resolved: Voters decided to keep the Athens Municipal Water Authority (AMWA) afloat

Cedar Lake Nursing Home in Malakoff celebrated its 44th year of business Thursday with a luau, which explains CLNH Administrator Doug “Sonny” Humble’s Hawaiian attire in the photo above as he speaks to the party crowd. The nursing home has been owned by the Humble family since 1967.

Back in 2007, for the 40th anniversary, then-State Rep. Betty Brown said, “The thing that impressed me (when learning about CLNH) was the statement that people who live here are treated like family. I thought, ‘How neat, how neat.’ If all of our nursing facilities had that attitude, I wouldn’t get some of the phone calls I do about some other places.”

The cost will include about $109,000 in interested, so the actual payback amount is a little more than half a million dollars.

The city intends to raise the money through Certificates of Obligation. According to information from Southwest Securities, the company hired by council members to guide them through this process, the money will be paid back by 2020.

The loan can be paid for with money raised from an increase in property taxes, water rates, or sewer rates, said Ed Moore of Southwest.